Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-09-28

me muruef or W. b. t10rton Oy .
 cruel Apache fiend will be depIored by
 every good citizen of Arizona Despite
 the so-called humane sentiment on the
 Indian question by the Indian lovers in
 the east, as we'll as few of the officers
 Of the United States army. ve express the sentiment of very large majority
 of the people of Arizona, when we state that the life of one good citizen. such as
 w. E. Horton was, IS worth more than the lives of every cut throat Apache on
 the San Carlos reservation. It is .
 batch of some 1000 or I,soo of just
 such heartless iends as this that mur-
 dered w. x. Horton, that General Miles
 has recommended to be placed on .
 military reservation of this county, in the very heart of one of the richest agri- cultural valleys that we have. where they
 will be aconstant menance to the lives and property of a now happy and pros
 porous people. Settlers have protested
 in the strongest terms possible against
 this colonization of these Indians in their
 midst, and should the general govern
 ment not thwart our commanding gen.
 eral in bis designs many of these settlers
 will prefer to abandon their homes and
 all they possess in preference to subject
 ing their families to the dangers incl
 dent upon SO close coptact with the
 6ends. whose greatest delight and pleas
 ure, is in the torture and murder Of inno- cent women and children. It is the sheefest nonsense for our brethern of the press in the southern part of the ter ritory to say that by this division of these Indians they can be more success fully handled than by keeping them to- gether on the San Carlos reservation The contrary is true. as is known by every one in the least familiar with Indian warfare. The scheme is one which bodes no good for Arizona. As it is now, there is only one section of the territory menaced by them. While we heartily symwathize with the settlers in that vicinity and de- plore the tact that there are uncivilized Indians in the territory, it affords no greater security of life or property to the people of Southeastern Arizona to take these Indians from there and place them on a reservation situated in. country with which they are more familiar, and where their opportunities for murder and rapine are greater on this account than where they now are. Two wrongs never yet made a right. and should these lndi- ans be placed on the Verde reservation, against the unanimous protest of North ern Arlzona, backed up by that of our territorial officials, it is the plain duty of avery citizen to arm himself and to weep them, not only from Arizona, but rom the face of the earth. If Arlzon- ms had dealt with this Indian question
 here would be fewer of these redskins
 eft to murder innocent men and de ienseless children than at present, and it 'equres no great prophetic powers to oresee elimination yet of the difficulty, n their extermination, should the gov .rnmsnt continue to follow the advice of lilly sentimentalists of the east, who Inow no more of what they preach than he devil knows of heaven. rather than 'ct on the practical suggestions of those with the situation. May God md the people of Arizona speed the ime when this result may be brought bout.